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A brief note on the G$_2$ Affleck-Kennedy-Lieb-Tasaki chain

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2025-08-19 v3 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We consider the valence bond solid (VBS) state built of singlet pairs of fundamental representations and projected onto adjoint representations of the exceptional Lie group G2_2. The two-point correlation function in the VBS state is non-vanishing only for nearest neighbours, but possesses finite string order. We construct a parent Hamiltonian for the VBS state, which constitutes the G2_2 analog of the famous AKLT chain.

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@article{arxiv.2503.18885,
  title  = {A brief note on the G$_2$ Affleck-Kennedy-Lieb-Tasaki chain},
  author = {Hosho Katsura and Dirk Schuricht},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.18885},
  year   = {2025}
}

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In memory of Ian Affleck